Scatter blaster
Swindle may buy and sell an arsenal's worth of weapons in a day, but he keeps an occasional piece of merchandise for himself. His scatter blaster fires a wide spray of explosive buckshot—perfect for keeping away dissatisfied customers.
Wildrider uses the similar scattershot gun, which he could've easily bought off of Swindle. If he shoots at anything, including small five story buildings in a fifty-square yard area, up to a 1/4 mile away, THE TERRORISTS WIN.
Fiction
Marvel The Transformers comics
Within the human video game Multi-World alongside Brawl, Swindle used his scatter-blaster to attack Streetwise and First Aid in the "Vineland" area of the game. The scatter-blaster's wanton destruction led to the area's vine creatures turning against the Combaticons, allowing the two Protectobots to take them out of the game. Afterdeath!
Animated cartoon
Even in an alternate universe, Swindle still swears by this weapon. Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac
2005 IDW continuity
Scatter blasters were among the weapons invented by Brainstorm and kept in his workshop on the Lost Light. Trailcutter found some while searching the workshop for a remote control, but mistakenly called them "shatter blasters". The Reluctant Specialist
Games
War for Cybertron
A popular short-range weapon during the Great War, the Scatter Blaster was commonly carried by Scout and Scientist class Transformers. Starscream, Skywarp, Breakdown, Ironhide, and Air Raid all favored this weapon. Surprisingly it is full auto. Transformers: War for Cybertron
- Damage: 7
- Range: 3
- Accuracy: 4
- Rate of Fire: 5
Fall of Cybertron
They were still in use later in the war, as the Autobots readied the Ark for launch. At this point, the weapon was favoured by Jazz and Starscream, but not, surprisingly, Swindle. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
- Damage: 9
- Range: 4
- Accuracy: 5
- Rate of Fire: 8
- This weapon can be modified in multiplayer/escalation with the following upgrades:
- Ion Cartridge - Increases the amount of ammo within a clip
- Hyper Interlink - Speeds up reload time
- Quantum Stabilizer - Completely eliminates recoil
- Fireblast - Bullets do less damage but set enemies on fire dealing more damage over time
Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark
The Scatter Blaster is available in escalation along with all the other weapons from Fall of Cybertron. Rise of the Dark Spark
Notes
- Wildrider's bios of his Generation 1 toys released in Japanese markets have his scattershot gun roughly translated into laser shotgun, which fits the functionality as mentioned above. Swindle's scatter blaster is fed with buckshots, which presumably work like real-life buckshots-a type of shotgun shell.
- Also, Wildrider's More than Meets the Eye profile notes that his scattershot gun can only fill fifty-square-feet with the same 1/4 mile range, which means the spread of the weapon's beams is much tighter (50 square feet is around 4.65 square meters while 50 square yard is nearly 42 square meters).
